This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Xgk.2ACEB/5949.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Shirley! You have some tough questions. I know that their are many Jacksons with Native American bloodlines as I am proof of that. In particular the Cherokee and Choctah and their "cousin" tribes, as my daughter`s mother had Choctah blood with a grandfather whose first name was' Rainwater' I know that Andrew and Rachel adopted a Cherokee boy and I believe they had another child that died,but don`t quote me on that as I am not absolutely sure. I believe there is a lady named Debbie Jackson who is also related to the Meeks family who has posted on this Jackson board. She is a very intelligent Native American lady and is very knowledgeable about Native America so maybe she can answer your N.A. questions.The Jacksons had 2 brothers that first emigrated to America from Ireland around the mid-1700`s. The older brothers name was Isaac and his line were direct links to Andrew Jackson while the younger brother was John J. Jackson Sr. my 4X great-grandfather who was the grea! t grandfather of C.S.A. Lt.Gen. Thomas Jonathon "Stonewall"Jackson. Andrew and Stonewall and myself share the same patriarch as a grandfather,his name is Richard Jackson and he was born in 1505 at Killingswold Grove,Yorkshire,England. His descendents eventually spread to Ireland and other points in the British Isles,before Isaac and John came to America,and the rest is history. Andrew and "Stonewall"are 2nd cousins twice removed,and "Stonewall is my 2nd cousin twice removed and Andrew my 2nd cousin 4X removed. Enter the information about Richard Jackson on Google, enter " Mc Ginty Family html" on Google,and enter DON NORMAN on Google also. If you really want to learn about Jackson relations then read my posts from today on back to August of 2002 as it is all there for the reading. Good luck Shirley. L.H.